Standing tall on the wings of my dream / Rise and fall on the wings of my dream. Followers of sitcom Good Strangers had their very own dream come true, as stars Mark Linn-Baker and Bronson Pinchot reunited, even immediately paying homage to their characters, Larry Appleton and Balki Bartokomous.
Pinchot took to social media to share a video of himself and Baker. As he tells his former Good Strangers co-star, “People were saying in the comments that they wanted us to be the characters. Would you like to do it on three?” After some hesitation, Pinchot removes Baker’s glasses (come on, Mark, Cousin Larry didn’t put on specs!) and the 2 go right into a little bit of a routine on the best way out of their lodge, with Baker taking part in the right straight man to Pinchot’s quirky foreigner. Accompanying the video is the caption, “We finally decided to just haul off and get in character… so here we are as Cousin Balki & Cousin Larry”. The video was shot as Pinchot and Baker had been about to move to the Fanboy Expo in Knoxville, Tennessee, the place they’re showing collectively.
We right here at JoBlo love us some Good Strangers (peep the pic of Pinchot and our editor-in-chief Chris Bumbray on the backside of the article!) so it’s superior to see Bronson Pinchot and Mark Linn-Baker not solely nonetheless getting alongside but additionally sustaining a spot-on chemistry that not solely calls again to the sitcom however exhibits how a lot enjoyable they’ve collectively.
Good Strangers ran for eight seasons and 150 episodes, with a brief spot on ABC’s TGIF lineup. For individuals who haven’t seen it, Good Strangers was a traditional instance of the odd couple dynamics in American sitcoms, with Larry discovering himself residing with very distant cousin Balki, who hails from the fictional Mediterranean island of Mypos and whose curiosity and misinterpretations lend to him being a fish out of water. Early on, Pinchot would find yourself being nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Excellent Lead Actor in a Comedy Sequence, though Michael J. Fox was in the midst of his threepeat for Household Ties.
Previous to creating Good Strangers, Dale McRaven had a direct hand in establishing Mork & Mindy.
